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No your reply was totally valid. How-to-brew started that article with this... My point is that part I put in bold makes all of their results fairly meaningless, they missed the point of what they were studying. They are studying how increased wort gravity (because of their smaller volume...

Ah yes I forgot about that. Again though you would be using hoptshot at 60min or so for bitterness... then still diluting. So max bitterness means no dilution, full 8 gal boils I think. Interesting that Pliney was measured to be 85, that answers the question of what is actually being saturated...

More bitterness in plain water?... why don't we just boil our hops in a pot of water then? This seems to be an issue ive found searching across forums and articles... no-one can decide what relationship hops have to the initial boil gravity vrs the late additions boil gravity.

P.S. Brewed my pliney tonight, biggest surprise was having to deal with my second hotbreak at 15min as I added the rest of the DME. Did a 4 gal boil and got away with it on my stove.

Ok thanks, so big IPAs are pretty much full boil or suffer some lack of bitterness which I am ok with. While I know perceptable bitterness maxes out at 100IBU, is that the case for the max isomerization of the wort itself? Has that been studied? If I create a theoretical 200IBU (meaningless to...

I have to wait for a moderator to approve my comment, presumably because I included a link, so I'll just decide on this brew as i go I guess.

Thanks for the reply. That was an interesting article, it starts off by looking at how utilization is different because of the higher gravit wort, but then doesn't even address what happens to that wort once its diluted with water in the fermenter. This site...

Sorry if this has been asked before, I search and seemed to get opposite answers to the same question. I've taken a break from brewing the last two years, used to do biab all grain batches, now with a kid I'm looking for something a little quicker but never really worked with all extract...